On Saturday, Michael and I drove to South Carolina to visit with our friends Ron and Nina. They are both horsemen and compete in the “Cowboy Mounted Shooters” competitions.
The arena was backlit and I didn’t expect to get any good photos but the good old i-phone did the trick and I hit this amazing action shot with Nina taking out one of the balloon targets……
On one of our trips to Kunming China, we spotted this small vignette of typical life in China…..
In 2020, Michael and I had the amazing opportunity to spend 8 weeks in Italy, with the entire month of September in Rome. While we were there, our friends, David and Lyn, came to visit and spent a week with us. You can read more about our Italian in THIS and surrounding posts.
On our first day out, we headed to the Pantheon which was only a 10-minute walk from our apartment…if you didn’t get lost!! We had gone this way many times, quickly walking past a small church without thinking about it. Well, David had done his research before the trip and told us that there was a Michelangelo sculpture in this small, nondescript church….who knew!!!
As expected, the sculpture was amazing but NOT the subject of this “Almost” Wordless Wednesday.
Instead, I found a lovely Madonna and Child statue in one of the corners and snapped a bunch of shots. In particular, I love how the light hits and highlights the beads…..
I love when this photo surfaces on my desktop. It is a sweet reminder of an amazing trip, super friends and the peacefulness of a small church in Rome!!
On one of our trips to China, we were in the city of Kunming for my birthday and I decided that I wanted to go to a Chinese Cultural Event. Our friend Jialin suggested that we go to see “Dynamic Yunnan”…..a fusion of traditional ethnic folk music and modern dance.
The program was made up of 6 chapters, each with a theme and a wonderfully choreographed dance. Each of the dances had a particular element of sound or visual interest that managed to capture our imaginations. The performers were from the Yunnan ethnic minorities and the costumes were authentic for the area.
Officially, there was no photography allowed, but throughout the show, we could see flashes from cameras and hear the whirring of video cameras. So, sometime around the 2nd chapter, I pulled out my I-phone and started taking photos as well.
This is my favorite photo of the evening…..
Before the dance started, a fair amount of “snow” had already fallen on the stage and when they started whipping the scarves around, it picked up the snow and made it swirl!!!
I know that this photo is out focus and fuzzy, but when I see it, I immediately think of a Blizzard!!!
If you would like to read more about the program, please use this LINK to get to that blog post.
As I have mentioned, we were in Texas for a few days this past weekend. As we were driving out of DFW airport, we were enamored with this gorgeous sunset…..
….and the wide open spaces certainly didn’t hurt the photo either!!!
Alternately, we were both amazed and a little frightened by the number of birds hanging around outside of the restaurant where we stopped to eat…….
I particularly love how evenly spaced they are!!!
